Material selection is of utmost importance when choosing clothing and scarves. Scarves made of different materials offer differing levels of comfort as well as different textures; popular choices for scarves include wool, cashmere, imitation cashmere and silk.
1. Wool
Wool from sheep is called wool, and wool products have the characteristics of fullness, good warmth retention, and comfortable wear. Compared with other natural fibers, natural wool is difficult to handle. Moreover, there are many varieties of wool, so the price varies greatly. Because the wool scarf feels full and hard, it is often evaluated by fineness to determine the quality of wool. Longxiang Textile is a 25-year-old entity manufacturing enterprise dedicated to research and development of scarves and shawls. It has exquisite textile technology, tight yarn arrangement, and produces thick and glossy wool scarves and shawls with high quality. It customizes wool scarves and shawls for many companies. The wool scarves and shawls are extremely soft and comfortable, with good warmth retention, especially suitable for air-conditioned rooms in summer and autumn and winter seasons. The wool scarves and shawls have good breathability, and people lying on them will provide ideal constant temperature for the human body during sleep.
2. Cashmere
Cashmere is a high-end material characterized by thinness, softness, smoothness and lustre that outshines other fibers such as wool in terms of lightness and smoothness compared to their heft and roughness. Compared with these qualities of wool fibers, the lighter and lustrous characteristics of cashmere more than make up for its disadvantages when used instead. Cashmere fibers are tightly arranged during spinning and weaving processes to retain heat well, and have uniform fineness, low density, and mostly regular circular cross section, making them highly absorbent while being resistant to fading dyes, thus creating its natural yet soft color palette. Furthermore, its shrink properties mean they retain their shape after washing.
3. Imitation Cashmere
Imitation cashmere is distinguished by its smooth texture, soft hand feel, and good elasticity. Made from acrylic or polyester material of finer gauge than conventional ones using an advanced process, its feel resembles that of natural cashmere scarves and shawls while their price advantage over natural ones remains. Likewise it boasts brighter and richer colors than its real-life counterpart.
4. Silk
Customers love silk for its soft texture, warmth and breathability – qualities which make silk scarves and shawls particularly suitable for fall and winter weather conditions and enhance warmth. Silk scarves and shawls typically use the brushed process, creating an exceptionally warm brushed silk scarf or shawl that enhances warmth during these periods of the year. Brushed silk feels similar to cashmere in quality yet cost comparison with other materials making this option very cost effective when it comes to scarves and shawls made with other materials.
An ideal scarf consists of the four fabrics mentioned, so I hope that when buying one you are able to select the appropriate material.
